Celebrating Alternative Strings: The Alternative Styles Awards

March 17- 19, 2011
Kansas City, Kansas

This biennial event is held in conjunction with the ASTA National Conference and seeks to identify, celebrate, and encourage your practitioners of alternative string styles, such as (but not limited to) all folk music traditions, jazz, fusion, and rock music. 

ASTA members, or students whose primary teacher is an ASTA member, who are players of violin, viola, cello and bass (upright) are invited to apply. To be selected as a winner, the performer must be able to perform at the 2011 National Conference in Kansas City and meet the age requirements on the entry form. First place winners from the 2007 and 2009 competitions are not eligible to participate unless they have moved into a new age division.

Important Note  _{^{(Effective for 2009)}}

Students who have been invited and who have accepted to be part of the Alternative Styles Awards program may not also be a participant in a National Orchestra Festival group, the National High School Honors Orchestra, or the finals of the National Solo Competition in the same national conference year. This participation restriction is due to overlapping event schedules which will cause disruption to the overall experience for all participants of each program. Students may apply for more than one event, but must accept only one if offered multiple event opportunities within the same conference year.